Metin Karaba\u015fo\u011flu (Translated by Muhammed \u015eeviker)<\/p>\n
THE PARABLE of Moses, and, consequently of Pharaoh\u2019s is the most reiterated and detailed parable among the Qur\u2019anic tales. It is the most repeated parable in respect to the number of chapters in which it is mentioned. So much so that, even the parable of Adam and Devil ranks the second after it.<\/p>\n
There a lot of wisdoms of this. And, perhaps one of the most important wisdoms is that the parable of Moses shows best how the struggle between Adam\u2019s descendants and those of Devil manifests itself in the realm of people who shape in flesh and bones.<\/p>\n
In this parable which manifests itself again and again when proceeding along with chapters of Qur\u2019an, Pharaoh does not present himself as a single entity. We can observe that the pharaoh didn\u2019t make himself a pharaoh. Because, actually, pharaoh is a human being like us. He is not a superhuman. All of the needs which befall to everyone else apply to him too. He dies if he gets hungry. He does not sustain his life without water. He can\u2019t live without breathing. He perishes without sleeping. He has height and weight like everyone else; he has limited strength and thought.<\/p>\n
What makes him a pharaoh is not he per se, but it is consortium that he belongs to and stands in the centre of it. Actually, the pharaoh is consisted of a consortium. Yet, because of the elements except for him, the pharaoh was able to be a pharaoh.<\/p>\n
Thus, the Qur\u2019an narrates this villainous guy who declared himself as a \u201cthe most high lord\u201d together with his collaborators in this process.<\/p>\n
First and foremost together with his community\u2026<\/p>\n
When the Pharaoh brought his community together and asked \u201cam I your the most high lord?\u201d even a one person in his huge community didn\u2019t challenge this guy who has as the same limitations, the same helplessness and needs as them. Even one man could not say \u201cget outta here!?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather, they said all together, \u201cyes, you are our most high lord\u201d. Thus, in the narration of the verse, \u201cthe Pharaoh befooled and misled his people, and they obeyed him.\u201d the thing they should have said is \u201cNeither you are lord, nor we are your servants. All of us are servants of the Lord of the Worlds. All of us are equal servants of Allah, in being created and being far away from creativeness.<\/p>\n
Qur\u2019an shows us the community Pharaoh who, sometimes because of hope, in others out of fear of death, by all manner of means, with an ontological blindness serve someone slavishly lost their human dignity to extent that they agreed to serve the servants in this consortium as well as other names.<\/p>\n
For instance his aide Haman is, in one respect, the symbol of bureaucracy, in the other is the symbol of \u2018academia\u2019.<\/p>\n
For instance, Korah is the symbol and mouthpiece of this consortium\u2019s economy branch. (Who, even though he was one of from the children of Israel whom the pharaoh enslaved, instead of challenging the Pharaoh like Moses and saying him \u201cset free the children of Israel, restore their liberties, be servant to the Lord of Worlds\u201d, he chose being the economical supporter of this \u2018consortium\u2019 and, in this way, to increase his wealth.)<\/p>\n
Moreover, there are others those, also from the children of Israel, like Korah, who abandoned his intellect and heart to the consortium. In this consortium there were, such as Bal`am bin Ba`ura who, although his reason know the truth, for the sake of worldly profits his tongue becomes a mouthpiece of evilness and wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
Even, except for a too few people, the Children of Israel were in this consortium. Because, before the tyranny of the pharaoh they virtually internalized slavery; they sought and saw their future in the order of Pharaoh. Having been rescued from the tyranny of Pharaoh, particularly by means of a miracle, they avoided the holy struggle against the city\u2019s people whom considered as strong, and said \u201cO Moses! Go you and your Lord and fight you two, we are sitting right here.” They also, taking advantage of the days in which Moses left for Mount Sinai, immediately, began to worship golden calf constructed by a man who was among them called Samiri. These are two great signs of intellectual, heartily, emotional, actual, operational and credential defects.<\/p>\n
The pharaoh reality that the Qur\u2019an shows us in parallel with Moses parable, lays bare before us a consortium in which all the elements meet.<\/p>\n
It shows also the reason from which pharaohs stemmed from and sustained their entities.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look at the world\u2019s recent centuries at the light of these clues.<\/p>\n
What do we observe?<\/p>\n
Or, let\u2019s look what has been going on for last sixty day, particularly in the Islamic world.<\/p>\n
What can we see?<\/p>\n
What we see is a consortium in which there are masses who come to agree disbelief and oppression; and those who build up the future constructs by means of internalizing slavery, having seen the edifice of disbelief and tyranny as an unchangeable constant; and those who mastermind; those who develop practices accordingly, and those who finance them\u2026<\/p>\n
Hamans, Korahs, Bal`ams, Samiris and others\u2026.<\/p>\n
If I asked \u201cwhat have you seen in the world in the last sixty day\u201d my answer would be \u201cI have seen the Pharaoh consortium so much clear at the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, I have always kept my hope that this consortium is going to collapse inevitably\u2026<\/p>\n
Because, if they have a consortium, the truth has a stick, which wherever is it hit, extracts a life water, and resolves and swallow wherever it sees a pharaohial magic.<\/p>\n
It is true that every pharaoh confronts with a Moses\u2026<\/p>\n
But, its opposite is also true: the Lord of the Worlds sends a Moses in order to undermine a pharaoh.<\/p>\n
And, even today, this struggle goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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